Re: Yes to Publicity! Not to Anonimit! Was: Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

> > It's well known that one of the reasons that code reviews do imporve
> > software quality...
> >    
>
> And it's exactly this kind of outside influence that we're trying to
> avoid with anonymous voting...
Why??? It works, you get better results with it. Why you want to remove 
it??? :)

Anyway, it sounds like there are two positions on the subject and none 
of the sides is will
change its opinion. Can we try to go in another direction? As far as I 
can understand, the main
reason for introducing anonymous voting is the fear that a guy A from 
company B would
get votes from people working for company B just because s/he is a guy 
from company B
and s/he can make life of a voter from company B a nightmare if this 
voter would not vote
for guy A (replace "company B" with any other group of people, say 
"friends or fans of
John Smith").

The anonymous voting tries to solve the problem by removing "just 
because s/he is a guy
from company B" reason. Can we think about other solutions for this 
problem? For example,
we can agree that such reason to vote for this guy A would always exist 
and intead of eliminating it
we can try to "limit damage". One of options would be to promote 
diversity of GNOME
Foundation. If, say, half of GNOME Foundation members work for the same 
company B
then the fear mentioned above is real. However, if we have no company 
with more than 5% of
GNOME foundation members then this fear seems baseless. Note that I 
*don't* suggest to
establish limits on how many people can join GNOME Foundation from 
particular company.
Instead I am thinking about promoting GNOME in general thus more people 
would be interested
in joining Foundation.  And none of the companies would be able to take 
significant percentage of
employees in the Foundation.

And probably there are other solutions to this problem as well. 
Anonimity sounds like a first
option but this does not mean that it's the best one.

Aleksey